trailing blank line in a text file

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 20:36, Olga wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 20:11, Olga wrote:
> >> > ----
> >> > Actually, php doesn't do that, the code in your php program does that
> >> > and thus, you can adjust the code to do what you want.
> >> >
> >> > Craig
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> You are right, it's the php code. But I don't see anything wrong with
> >> the
> >> following:
> >>
> >> $x=0;
> >> $ar=array();
> >> $f = fopen ("../employee.txt", "r");
> >> while (!feof ($f)) {
> >>     $ar[$x] = fgets($f, 4096);
> >>     $x++;
> >> }
> >>
> >> The count of $ar returns 4 even though there are actually 3 records. So
> >> I
> >> am not sure if you would call it an expected behaviour.
> > ----
> > I've not programmed in php in a very long time and my proficiency is
> > nada. But it would seem to me that all you need is an if statement to
> > check whether $f is an empty string ("") and then exit the while
> > statement OR however you are creating employee.txt, to get it to omit
> > the last LF instead of adding it.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> 
> Yes, I agree with you - I can either adjust the code or get back to my
> original question. :) How do I get an editor to not insert the trailing
> blank line ( LF line) rather than add it (with such editors as vi and
> nano)?
---
don't know - I don't use vi/vim
but I would start with man vi
and that should lead you to
/usr/share/doc/vim-common-6.2.457/docs

Craig